EPS Theme 3 Symposium “Metabolism and Adaptation“
Date: 5.11.2021
Location: C0763 Forum, Campus Wageningen
Fee: no, but registration required
Registration: closed
Deadline for registration: 27.10.2021
Organizers: Leónie Bentsink and Ivo Rieu
Keynote Speakers: Charlotte Gommers, Wageningen University and Yasin Dagdas, Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna, Austria
All EPS members with an interest in Metabolism and Adaption are hereby kindly invited to join the EPS Theme 3 Symposium on the 5th of November 2021.
As usual this symposium gives EPS theme 3 members the opportunity to present and discuss their own work, especially the young scientists (PhD candidates & postdocs). If you would like to present your work please send an email with name(s) of speaker(s) and title(s) of oral presentation(s) to Leonie Bentsink please cc Ivo Rieu.
Preliminary program
09.15 Registration and Coffee
Chair: Leónie Bentsink
09.45 Welcome
10.00 Invited speaker: Yasin Dagdas, (Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, Vienna, Austria)
“Selective Autophagy Mediated Cellular Quality Control in Plants”
10.45 Eva van Zelm (Plant Physiology, Wageningen University)
“Capturing the dynamics of root system architecture remodelling during salt stress”
11.10 Coffee/Tea break
11.40 Tom Rankenberg (Plant Ecophysiology, Utrecht University)
“Age-dependent leaf death during flooding is controlled by ORESARA1”
12.05 Pietro Zocca (Plant Physiology at Swammerdam Institute of Life Sciences, University of Amsterdam)
“Tomato genetic factors orchestrating the development of type VI glandular trichomes and the production of volatile terpenes”
12.30 LUNCH
Chair: Ivo Rieu
13.30 Invited speaker: Charlotte Gommers (Plant Physiology, Wageningen University)
“Seedling establishment under stress: a signalling role for chloroplasts”
14.15 Andreas Romanowski (Plant Ecophysiology, Utrecht University)
“Phytochrome regulates cellular response plasticity and the basic molecular machinery of leaf development”
14.40 Martijn Jansen (Plant Systems Physiology, Radboud University)
“Heat tolerant flowers keep it cool”
15.05 Coffee/Tea break
15.25 Invited speaker: Daan Weits (Plant Ecophysiology, Utrecht University).
“Enigma of the low oxygen plant stem cell niche”
16.10 Scott Hayes (Plant Physiology, Wageningen University)
“Warm-temperature induced root elongation is dependent on mild osmotic stress”
16.35 Closure
16.40 Drinks
Friday, November 5, 2021
Wageningen University
WUR – Forum building
Droevendaalsesteeg 2, Wageningen